The US interest in staying in Syria is built around long-term goals that
aren’t particularly clear, but which are predicated on the idea that
the Kurdish SDF will retain control over a massive percentage of Syria.
The problem is that while the SDF controls materially all of Syrian
Kurdish territory (outside of what Turkey already sacked), they also
control huge amounts of territory that they seized from ISIS, and which
the local Arab tribesmen are increasingly keen to see returned to local
control.
This is fueling protests among Arabs under Kurdish rule,
which the Kurds are confusing of benefiting Iran and Turkey, and
undermining their military victory against ISIS. It’s also undermining
the one piece of status quo the US is happy about in Syria, a vast
SDF-controlled east.
The SDF’s plan so far seems to be to just kill them, with SDF forces
showing up in Deir Ezzor during a protest, and opening fire on the
demonstrators, killing seven and sending the rest scattering.
History would tell us that killing protesters isn’t a solution to
protesting, but the Kurds don’t seem to have an alternate strategy at
the moment, and so long as they can fit the words Iran or ISIS into the
explanation, the US probably won’t object too loudly.
Kurds are committing massive crimes? Who would have guessed that they might? The simple truth is that homo sapient, who is a territorial ape, will always kill to gain new or defend already occupied territory. For the Trump administration the conundrum everywhere in the world is which group of territorial apes it should support/protect and which group of territorial apes it must bomb.
These are the same drug dealers, ethnic cleaners, and thieves that anarcho-fascists like Chomsky support.
The USA has NO RIGHT to be in Syria at all, and needs to leave now.
It has been said just anout hundreds of times on this sute and others that care about the reality — Kurds do not live in Deir Azzor. They live in very small percentages in al of the land they grabbed with US permission. If Kurds or US were not there, Syrian Army would have defeated USIS as they did in other parts of the country. Kurds live as a majority in Kobane region and Afrin. Afrin is under Turkish occupation — just try to imagine if US controlled YPG is in charge there.
I think the only solution is for Turkey to challenge Kurds in its border, putin Kobane in danger of Turkish occupation. That would force all Kurdish militia that is now occupying Deir Azzor, and Euphrates valley to run back home and defend its OWN territory, not occupy Arab lands.
This situation remunds me of Israel concept. For as ling as Kurds hold the population under occupation, they will over time force natives to mive and bring Kurds to take their land. The region is strategic, as it controls Syria-Iraq bkrder, and the whole idea of free trade from Asia to Midfle East and Mediterranean hk ges in this border being controlled by their owners — Syria and Iraq.
The priblem is — these people will be wuickly branded ISIS — and Kurds be alliwed to kill them. I am waiting for this propaganda. Ir Iranian stooges, or Hezbollah stoges. The local population was never consulted on anything. Just the oppisite. Kurds were aliwed to set up fake “joint” commuttees and control even school programs — requiring Kurdish language. Why do you think Raqqa has been bombed out, and is not habitable till today? It is to PREVENT majority Arab population to return home.
Same games going on in Manbij. But Turkey is under pressure, includkng internal pro-NATO Relublican Party that stole elections in Istanbul.
Our taxpayers money at work!
rosemerry hit the nail on the head, just who do we think we are and what in hell do we think we are doing.
The Kurds never should have let the US stretch them so thin. They should have stayed in their neighborhood. Interventionism always fails.